The Bank of Canada monetary policy statement from July meeting

11/07/2018

The central bank says Canadian growth will continue to see bigger contributions from exports and business investment, while it expects household spending to represent a smaller share due to the dampening effects of higher interest rates and stricter mortgage rules.

Poloz recently said the impacts of the U.S. Yet, the Canadian dollar is lower, reflecting broad-based U.S. dollar strength and concerns about trade actions.

The U.S. dollar rose as the market put aside trade tension fears and focused on an expectation-beating inflation report, which increased prospects that the Federal Reserve will raise U.S. interest rates another two times this year.

The bank's relatively sanguine view of the trade risk boosted the Canadian dollar to its strongest in almost four weeks, and economists said they expected the central bank to hike again by year end.

The Canadian dollar weakened to a more than one-week low against its USA counterpart on Wednesday as broad-based gains for the greenback offset an interest rate hike by the Bank of Canada and the prospect of further monetary policy tightening.

Thanks to stronger economic data, experts are predicting governor Stephen Poloz to hike the rate from its current level of 1.25 per cent.

Poloz also signaled he was comfortable with how financial markets were interpreting the central bank's message, noting the hike was "highly anticipated".

Money markets see a almost 70 per cent chance of further Bank of Canada tightening by December.

The bank said USA steel and aluminum tariffs imposed in June and retaliatory countermeasures by Canada in July would trim exports, imports and economic growth, and boost inflation, but strong global demand and higher commodity prices were offsetting the tariff headwind.

Scott Hannah says higher interest rates have also helped to cool down the country's real estate markets, helping future homeowners. CPI inflation is expected to edge up further to about 2.5 per cent before settling back to 2 per cent by the second half of 2019.

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